1.) Sonder: the realization that each passerby has a life as vivid & complex as your own.
2.) Opia: the ambiguous intensity of looking someone in the eye, which can feel simultaneously invasive & vulnerable.
3.) Monachopsis: the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place.
4.) Énouement: the bittersweetness of having arrived in the future, seeing how things turn out, but not bring able to tell your past self.
5.) Vellichor: the strange wistfulness of used bookshops.
6.) Rubatosis: the unsettlingness awareness of your own heartbeat.
7.) Kenopsia: the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that I'd usually bustling with people but is now abandoned & quiet.
8.) Maurebauertraurigkeit: the inexplicable urge to push people away, even close friends who you really like.
9.) Jouska: a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head.
10.) Chrysalism: the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm.
11.) Vemödalen: the frustration of photographic something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist.
12.) Anecdoche: a conversation in which everybody is talking, but nobody is listening.
13.) Ellipsism: a sadness that you'll never be able to know how history will turn out.
14.) Kuebiko: A state of exhaustion inspired by acts of senseless violence.
15.) Lachesism: the desire to be struck by disaster- to survive a plane crash, or to loose everything in a fire.
16.) Exulansis: the tendency to give up trying to talk about and experience because people are unable to relate to it.
17.) Adronitis: frustration with how long it takes to know someone.
18.) Rückkehrunruhe: the feeling of retiring home after an immersive trip only to find it fading rapidly from your awareness.
19.) Nodus tollens: the realization that the plot of your life doesn't make sense to you anymore.
20.) Onism: the frustration of being stuck in just one body, that only inhabits one place at a time.
21.) Liberosis: the desire to care less about things.
22.) Altschmerz: weariness in the same old issues that you've always had- the same boring flaws & anxieties that you've being boring at for years.
23.) Occhiolism: the awareness of the smallness of your perspective
-(via-the dictionary of obscure sorrows)
YOU ARE READING
the book of my messy thoughts
Acakthis is all my messy thoughts put together basically rants & quotes I hope I can have this book help people in some way realize that they're not alone & are amazing
